date:Feb 18, 2013
By the time he died in 1994, Linus Pauling had long been branded a quack by mainstream medicine and much of the mainstream media. Why? Because he advocated the use of vitamin C to treat many diseases, including the common cold. He claimed the medical establishment had long ignored important studies by respected scientists who provided evidence of vitamin C's disease-fighting properties.
Now, in a review of multiple placebo-controlled vitamin C studies, scientists at the University of Helsinki h